{"id":4689,"date":"2021-03-24T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2021-03-24T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:46:09","slug":"u-s-e-u-canada-and-britain-announce-sanctions-on-china-over-the-abuse-of-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/03\/24\/u-s-e-u-canada-and-britain-announce-sanctions-on-china-over-the-abuse-of-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., E.U., Canada and Britain announce sanctions on China over the abuse of Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/xinjiang-sanctions-european-union\/2021\/03\/22\/1b0d69aa-8b0a-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/xinjiang-sanctions-european-union\/2021\/03\/22\/1b0d69aa-8b0a-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada each announced sanctions against China over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a coordinated effort aimed at holding Beijing accountable for a years-long campaign against Uyghurs and other minority groups in the northwestern Chinese region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The E.U. was first to move, saying that it would hit four Chinese officials and a public security bureau with travel bans and asset freezes \u2014 its most significant measures since an arms embargo following the 1989 killings in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China quickly responded, leveling similar measures against a list of its European critics.The diplomatic push, announced Monday, comes just after a tense meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials and amid growing calls for democracies to work together to take on an increasingly authoritarian and assertive Beijing. Not long after the United States, Britain jumped in as well as Canada. The U.S., British and Canadian statements stressed that the moves were the result of close cooperation. \u201cWe stand united with the UK, Canada, and the EU in promoting accountability for those who abuse human rights,\u201d Blinken wrote Under President Donald Trump, the United States promised to take a strong stance on China but for the most part did so alone. The Biden administration has made known the importance of rallying allies, saying the scale of the challenge requires collective action. The Trump administration&#8217;s go it alone approach to dealing with China was bound to fail, because the US does not have enough economic leverage with China.&nbsp; However, the combination of the US, Canada, UK, and the EU does represent the vast majority of China&#8217;s export customers and this does have a huge economic impact on China.&nbsp; President Xi has to keep the economy growing in order to provide enough jobs for China, and these have to be good paying jobs.&nbsp; The threat of additional sanctions will cause China to at least take a hard look at what can be done to avoid economic impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/xinjiang-sanctions-european-union\/2021\/03\/22\/1b0d69aa-8b0a-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada each announced sanctions against China over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a coordinated effort aimed at holding Beijing accountable for a years-long campaign against Uyghurs and other minority groups in the northwestern Chinese region. The E.U. was first to move, saying that it would hit four Chinese officials and a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/03\/24\/u-s-e-u-canada-and-britain-announce-sanctions-on-china-over-the-abuse-of-uyghurs\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}